WHY DID PEOPLE COMMIT GENOCIDE IN RWANDA?
And then, there is the question: why did people commit genocide in Rwanda? One of the reasons you will hear (even perhaps from the mouths of the Defendants themselves) is that some Hutus intended a final solution to the ethnic problems of Rwanda: the perennial problem of frictions between Hutus and Tutsis. There is also a venal subtext to the story. The gale of political reform (set off by a war launched against Rwanda in 1990) was threatening to blow away the privileges of some of the powerful Rwandan elites of the day. They were being required to step aside and make room for the return of Rwandan exiles (mostly Tutsis). But they would rather plunge the country into a genocidal bloodbath than oblige willingly. Evidence will show that the Defendants in this trial were some of those elites of the day. But then these explanationsethnic problems and venalitygo only to the motive for the Genocide. To sociology and history it may well be that the reasons for an event are as important as the
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